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Lee Jae-myung Takes 66.4% in Overseas Voting, Three Times PPP's Kim Moon-soo

Written: 2025-06-04 19:30:55Updated: 2025-06-04 19:31:21

Lee Jae-myung Takes 66.4% in Overseas Voting, Three Times PPP's Kim Moon-soo

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President Lee Jae-myung received overwhelming support in overseas voting during the 21st presidential election, earning more than three times the votes of People Power Party candidate Kim Moon-soo. 

According to the National Election Commission(NEC) on Wednesday, a total of 205-thousand-268 overseas Koreans participated in the vote.

More than over 136-thousand of them, or 66-point-37 percent voted for Lee, while nearly 44-thousand or 21-point-38 percent cast ballots for Kim. 

The support rate among overseas voters is 16-point-95 percentage points larger than Lee’s overall rate of 49-point-42 percent, while Kim's overseas support was 19-point-77 percentage points lower than his overall rate of 41-point-15 percent.
 
The Reform Party's Lee Jun-seok garnered nine-point-96 percent.

With 258-thousand-254 registered voters, the turnout of overseas voting reached a record high of 79-point-five percent.

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